We ate salt-grilled squid legs at Manzaraya in KYOTO GION, Listened to "They Say It's Wonderful"at Rokudenashi (jazz cafe), and finished off with coffee at Francois.
We ate "negi soba" at HAYAMA MARINA and walked along Isshiki Beach comme local people.
" These days were good. Let's stop crying. The scenery of the sea and mountains remains.
For the sake of a lonely, sorrowful heart "
( by Horiguchi Daigaku)
I call out to the Dinky floating offshore. I'll come again.
The little yacht answers.
ORE WA MATTERUZE(I'll be waiting)
サボイでストンプ (アートペッパー)
ぎおんばやし
夏 祇園囃子が聞きたい! 一杯飲んで蛸薬師通りを歩いて室町通りへ
(祇園祭 後祭 宵宵宵山)
Gion Bayashi(KYOTO)
Je veux ecoute Gion Bayashi ! Prenez un pot et dirigez-vous vers la rue MUROMATI in KYOTO
It's weird, it's weird, this place is weird.
Why is there a poster of this retro lady from Ozeki Sake Brewery
next to this surreal picture of a girl ? "Isn't it fine?"
And it's leaning up in the middle of the aisle.
"I guess they didn't have anywhere to put it."
Are all the antiques here for sale? "No, they're just there."
"Look at that air conditioner next to the ceiling."
What's with that? "It's broken." It's weird, it's weird.
"Well, the store is air-conditioned."
"They just left the old broken air conditioner there."
"If a broken air conditioner is left there covered in dust,it becomes an object."
It's weird, it's like Terayama Shuji
(I got bored because I kept getting the same response, so I played with the phone on the table)
What's that, a trumpet on top and a dial receiver on the bottom.
It's too old. What is it? It 's weird, it's weird, what's going on! I can't find it even if I search for it on my smartphone.
"I don't carry a smartphone, I just walked around and found it, so why can't you find it?"
"Well, it's in a narrow alley."
"Look around the entrance. Someone came in wearing a yukata that's out of season."
"Now that I think about it, the waitress is young and pretty, with a lot of makeup."
"I wonder if she's a member of some theater company."
What's strange about this store? Everything about it is strange.
And everyone who comes in is strange too.
(A conversation in Kyoto after reuniting with mon ami who used to live next door to me)
A comfortable, ordinary coffee shop in Kyoto,
a city that has accumulated 1200 years of sorrow, contradictions, and chaos.
月を飲む
Let's drink the Moon comme all japanese do
京都 祇園 (何必館) KYOTO GION (Kahitukan)
NAGANO Hakuba Village
Camping for the first time in decades. We started with old equipments.
The Coleman gas lantern's flame was still white.
4 days and 3 nights, tomorrow we will go to Aomori Sukayu-onsen. Mileage: 2496km. It was tough. it was fun.
Everyone, please do it.